Okay, my new club is a nice little local bikini bar and we don't have a large staff. Most days the DJs triple-task as bouncers and barbacks. We have one bouncer that is my age; 21, and he only bounces. He works the latest shift and his responsibilities to us dancers includes watching the floor/customers, writing down/keeping track of how many lapdances we do and timing them.
Now this bouncer dude is always complaining, to us dancers, about the fact that we don't have to tip the bouncers(him) out. First of all, whining about it to me is not going to inspire me to tip you. It'll only do the exact opposite. Second of all, what services would we be tipping him for exactly? The only services that he provides to us are the ones that are mandatory for him to provide. Nothing wrong with that at all, but why should I tip him for doing only what his salary pays him for doing? Is that not what his salary is for?? It's not like he goes out of his way to do the things that he does for us, those are the few things that his job requires him to do.
Our club very seldom gets busy so it's not like he's going nuts managing the door, us dancers do not make much money if any from dances so he's not going nuts trying to keep track of the couple of dances that go on during his shift. And no one ever acts up so I've never seen him have to police any customers. The vast majority of his shift is spent sitting down and talking to the dancers lol. Nothing wrong with any of that, but don't hassle us for tips when you're not exactly breaking your back for us, which I do not expect him to do.
His responsibilities were undoubtedly explained to him as was his salary for them when he was hired. If he now has a problem with how much money he is making for the job that he does he really needs to take that up with management, why should it come from the dancers? I honestly just think he feels a sense of entitlement. Puh-leeze.
The minimum to tip the DJ at night is $15 and a dancer told me that one night when a dancer gave the bouncer $2O to give the DJ a $2O tip, the bouncer got change for it and pocketed $5. She also told me that when she gave a string of dances for a customer, the bouncer told her what he thought 'his cut' should be. Of course she didn't give it to him. I try to let stories that dancers tell me go in one ear and out the other since it's probably untrue lol, but I can definitely see it happening.
Am I being miserly or is this guy just an immature, entitled doofus?



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